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Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification Christopher Peterson, Martin Seligman
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

Research on character strengths by Chris Peterson and colleagues has been monumental to the field of positive psychology and has ushered in a new science of character that involves a classification system (VIA Classification) and a scientific measurement tool . (2004) Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification. The 14th strength in Character Strengths and Virtues is the strength of kindness: This strength may also include such concepts as generosity, nurturance, care, compassion, and altruistic love. (2004) Character strengths and virtues: A handbook and classification. Washington D.C.: American Psychological Assn. A more detailed exposition of these strengths is now available in Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification by Christopher Peterson & Martin Seligman. New York, N.Y.: Oxford University Press. For strengths based materials: http://www.innovativeresources.org/. Niemiec, Rashid, and Spinella (2012) suggest that this integration creates a synergy of mutual benefit that can foster a virtuous circle in which mindful awareness boosts strengths use which, in turn, enlivens mindfulness. Character strengths and virtues: A handbook of classification. Character Strengths and Virtues: A Handbook and Classification. Child Abuse & Neglect, 7(2), 177-193. The child sexual abuse accomodation syndrome. Character Strengths and Virtues, A Handbook and Classification, is to Positive Psychology what the DSM (the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders) is to psychiatry. References: Peterson & Seligman (2004) Character strengths and virtues : a handbook and classification Oxford University Press, NY. Oxford: Oxford University Press. [2] We acknowledge the great influence of the work by pioneers in researching character: Peterson, C., and Seligman, M. New York: Oxford University Press.